Paramiko: SSH and SCP in Python

Paramiko
is a cute Python library that gives you cross platform SSH and
SCP capabilities. On Linux it relies on OpenSSH and on Windows it uses
Pageant (I assume it could be configured to use something else... didn't
need to consider that).

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Problems on Windows

At the time of writing this I was trying to use the Paramiko library
on a Windows XP machine using Paramiko version 1.16.0. It wouldn't work
giving the following error:

After a bit of googling I found out that
it has been fixed on the Paramiko mainline but hadn't made it into
an available pip-installable distribution yet.

The fix is really easy. Find the file _winapi.py in your
Python distro and
make the changes described here. In summary, wherever you see a line
reading "length = ctypes.wintypes.SIZE(n)", change it
to "length = ctypes.c_size_t(n)".

NOTE: This now appears to have been fixed. On a newer system where the pip install
downloaded v2.0.2 it has been fixed.